Seraphina Michelina Aurelia Bogomolova-Huotelin
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A storyteller and an investigator
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Triads and ‘Threesomes’
In June 2025, I got into a WhatsApp conversation with a person in disguise who, I then suspected and now know, was my twin half-brother. At the time of the conversation, he posed as a certain ‘Maryna Zhubryk’ — a real Ukrainian woman, no doubt, whose identity he used to approach and communicate with me. Our conversation took place during a two-year period when my half-brother approached me under multiple false identities, while I investigated our shared origins.
By Seraphina Michelina Aurelia Bogomolova-Huotelin3 months ago in Families
Menabilly, My Love - Part One: 'Into the Woods'
‘I edged my way onto the lawn, and there she stood. My house of secrets. My elusive Menabilly… The windows were shuttered fast, white and barred. Ivy covered the grey walls and threw tendrils round the windows. The house, like the world, was sleeping too. But later, when the sun was high, there would come no wreath of smoke from the chimneys. The shutters would not be thrown back, or the doors unfastened. No voices would sound within those darkened rooms. Menabilly would sleep on, like the sleeping beauty of the fairy tale, until someone should come to wake her.’ (from ‘The House of Secrets’, ‘Rebecca Notebook’, Daphne du Maurier)
By Seraphina Michelina Aurelia Bogomolova-Huotelin4 years ago in Fiction
Menabilly, My Love... Part Three: 'An Appalling Tragedy'
'‘An appalling tragedy,’ she was saying, ‘the papers were full of it of course. They say he never talks about it, never mentions her name. She was drowned you know, in the bay near Manderley…’’ (‘Rebecca’ by Daphne du Maurier)
By Seraphina Michelina Aurelia Bogomolova-Huotelin4 years ago in Fiction
Menabilly, My Love... Part Two: A Glimpse Inside
Looking at the interiors of a house is like looking into someone’s soul, catching a glimpse of the character and personality of the owner, feeling the emotions and atmosphere residing inside.
By Seraphina Michelina Aurelia Bogomolova-Huotelin4 years ago in Fiction
Menabilly, My Love… Part Five: ‘The Cottage in the Woods’
‘The sea was glass. The air was soft and misty warm and the only other creature out of bed was a fisherman hauling crab pots at the harbour mouth. It gave me a fine feeling of conceit to be up before the world. My feet in sand shoes seemed like wings. I came down to Pridmouth Bay, passing the solitary cottage by the lake, and, opening a small gate hard by, I saw a narrow path leading to the woods.’ (‘The Rebecca Notebook’, by Daphne du Maurier)
By Seraphina Michelina Aurelia Bogomolova-Huotelin4 years ago in Fiction
‘Oh, My Poor Lola… - Lolita Revisited’
I have recently come across an article in Russia about the long-suffering book ‘Lolita’ (1955) by the Russian-American novelist, poet, and translator, Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977). The long-suffering epithet assigned to the book is not mine though. It is Vladimir Nabokov himself who said so, as he was witnessing criticism of his book. The book was published in 1955 by Paris based Olympia Press, specialising in erotic and avant-gard literature. The fact that did very little good to the book, apart, of course, from making it popular.
By Seraphina Michelina Aurelia Bogomolova-Huotelin5 years ago in Education
A Dying Male Paradigm of ‘Money, Career, Sex’…
In life, we play certain roles without even being aware of it, as they have become such an integral part of our Self. Some of these roles we have assigned to ourselves by ourselves but some have been adopted by us or even imposed on us. We, as individuals, have a free will to choose a certain role or not. Even the imposed or forced one.
By Seraphina Michelina Aurelia Bogomolova-Huotelin5 years ago in Viva
‘Me Before You’ (2016) vs ‘Pretty Woman’ (1990)
Four years ago, when I still headed a literature club in Geneva (Switzerland), we had the book ‘Me Before You’ by Jojo Moyes read and discussed. The discussion coincided with the release of the movie of the same title. I remember the heated discussion that went around the subject of true love and whether Will loved Clark. Apart from myself and another woman everyone else thought that it was a tragic but romantic story and a true love. At the time, I could not convince those ladies that they were mistaken for the author would not have titled the book ‘Me Before You’ if the story was simply a tragic-romantic one. The title of the book as well as the movie bares a deeper thought and reflects on the old male paradigm. The very same paradigm that was applied in the movie ‘Pretty Woman’ (1990).
By Seraphina Michelina Aurelia Bogomolova-Huotelin5 years ago in Geeks
The Lost Female World of The Fairy Tale: ‘Beauty and The Beast’
I have been wanting to write about Beauty and The Beast (La Belle et la Bête) fairy tale and its recent adaptation Beauty and The Beast (2017) for some time now. There are two reasons for my wish to do so. The first one – I liked the 2017 adaptation of the fairy tale. The second – some years ago, I came across the original fairy tale, La Belle et la Bête, as it was written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve in 1740 and it opened my eyes to some fundamentals of the story that I have not been aware of before.
By Seraphina Michelina Aurelia Bogomolova-Huotelin5 years ago in Geeks
